Aspiring entrepreneur and University of Alabama in Huntsville master's student Mark Becnel wants other young people to know it's never too early to pursue an innovative idea.

"If you have a good idea, and if you think that it could change an industry, I think it's very probable that it will," he said Friday morning. "You just have to kind of push it, give it a little bit of love and make it happen."

Aspiring entrepreneur and University of Alabama in Huntsville master's student Mark Becnel wants other young people to know it's never too early to pursue an innovative idea.
"If you have a good idea, and if you think that it could change an industry, I think it's very probable that it will," he said Friday morning. "You just have to kind of push it, give it a little bit of love and make it happen."
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A space-based laser system proposed to NASA by UAH researchers could be a cost-effective way to nudge small asteroids away from a collision course with Earth.
With the February meteor explosion in Russia heightening U.S. government interest in how asteroid collisions with Earth can be prevented, the UAH scientists say using their system against smaller asteroids will provide practical scientific data needed to scale it up to defend against very large asteroids.

A senior-level design class and the Office of Technology Commercialization at UAH are working with an 89-year old former von Braun rocket team member to refine and model a device that will make semi-tractor trailer trucks turn better. It was his frustration at seeing the unwieldy manner in which semis operate on the road that first got Ernst Evers interested in making them more responsive.

A UAH aerospace engineering undergraduate student's idea for a new, more efficient way to package rocket engines has won him and two UAH professors a recent patent.
Sean Entrekin, now a UAH graduate with a master's degree in aerospace engineering, is an experimental flight test engineer at Redstone Testing Center. He joined with Dr. James Blackmon, a research professor at the UAH Propulsion Research Center, and Dr. Brian Landrum, an associate professor of aerospace engineering, in the patent award.

Patented at UAH, a smart pill bottle that notifies you to take your medications or reminds you if you missed a dose could be en route to medicine cabinets as soon as 2015.
Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City, a Cornell University college, has been awarded a $100,000 grant from the New York City Economic Development Corp. and Mayor Michael Bloomberg's administration for a clinical study to test the effectiveness of the smart pill bottle on drug adherence in HIV-positive patients. It was one of 10 partnerships to win an inaugural PILOT Health Tech NYC grant.